Communications Specialist
Public global power company that owns and operates electricity generation, regulated utilities, LNG infrastructure, renewable energy, and battery-storage assets.
About The AES Corporation
AES develops, constructs, and operates power-generation and distribution businesses, supplying affordable and sustainable power. Its portfolio includes solar, hydro, wind, natural gas, coal, battery storage, utilities, and LNG infrastructure.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and implement external communication strategies, policies, programs, and plans. You will create communications for projects and events, manage media relationships and crisis communications, prepare leadership messaging, coordinate external events, develop sustainability reports, manage sponsorships, and oversee corporate social media.
Requirements
- Degree in economics, business administration, communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, or a related field.
- Experience in corporate communications, public relations, media relations, and crisis management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage crisis situations.
- Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- English proficiency.
- Knowledge of media-relations management and strategic content creation.
- Numerical analysis skills.
- Experience preparing reports, compliance indicators, press releases, and presentations.
- Intermediate Excel and SAP skills.
- Knowledge of media and social-media monitoring platforms.
- Knowledge of corporate event management and media relations.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement external communication strategies, policies, programs, and plans.
- Plan and execute communications for projects and events.
- Manage relationships with media outlets.
- Design and implement crisis-management strategies.
- Coordinate leader and employee participation in forums and events.
- Develop key messages, speeches, documents, and talking points.
- Advise employees on external communications.
- Plan, coordinate, and deliver external events.
- Prepare external communication reports and sustainability reports.
- Manage sponsorship initiatives.
- Develop communication strategies for the CEO's public positioning.
- Manage corporate social media, content, community engagement, and performance monitoring.